Fish Mortality News Today

With news that the EU is calling into question Norway’s trade rules over so-called “production fish”, we thought it might be useful to shed some light on the ongoing controversy, starting with the salmon industry’s term “prodfisk” itself. Production fish are subject to an export ban within Norway, whose laws prohibit damaged salmon from being exported whole. The fish must first be processed within Norway’s borders to eliminate the damaged parts before the resulting salmon products...

Researchers are working on several theories to explain the mass deaths of fish found on the Japanese coast. Thy include the possibility that predators, such as amberjack, relentlessly hunted the migrating species, or that the fish died from rapid sea temperature fluctuations.